Glass-and-Sand

Futile musings of an old ghost

Tag: monk

  • Honeymoon Stories: Exploring Europe and Future Parenthood 241

    Honeymoon Stories: Exploring Europe and Future Parenthood 241

    We got married on Earth, and, through lengthy negotiations, in a very old medieval church near my birth place in Champagne. Melissa’s parents came, as well as my closer friends and colleagues, since my parents had left us some years back. Inga came with her husband. A cistercian monk from the nearby abbaye, an old…

  • The dream

    The dream

    Francis wanted to capture the dream: for the third night, he had read the name of a place he had known, and, now, wanted to build into the story. There were three, at equal distance from each other, the monk had said. The last day, his stare fixed on some old manuscript he had dug out…